Liamson



(No Model.)

O. T. WILLIAMSON.

COMBINED SPQON AND CORK SCREW. No. 264,391. Patented Sept. 12, 1882.

UNITED STATES PATENT EEIcE.

CORNELIUS T. WILLIAMSON, OF NEWARK, JERSEY.

COMBINED SPOON AND CORKSCREW.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 264,391, datedSeptember 12, 1882.

Application filed June 12, 1882.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CORNELIUS T. WIL- LIAMSON, ofNew-ark, in the countyof Essex and State ot'New Jersey, haveinvented a new and usefulImprovement in Combined Spoon and Corkscrew, of which the following is aspecification,reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

The invention relates to an improved attachment for medicine-bottles,and it consists in a spoon the handle of which is in the form of acorkscrew, as hereinafterdescribed, and particularly pointed out in theclaims.

I prefer to construct the combined corkscrew and spoon in such a manneras to render the corkscrew capable of being folded into the bowl of thespoon and opened at will. When the spoon and screw are folded the pointof the latter is protected by the sides of the bowl of the spoon, andthe device may consequently be handled or carried in the pocket withoutliability of injury to either person or clothing. The spoon may also,when the screw is in the cork, be folded down upon the same, and thusnot materially interfere with the bottle being wrapped or packed in thecustomary manner; also, when the spoon and screw are folded they may beconveniently held in the wrapper at the neck of the bottle, and in thismanner the bottles may be shipped without danger of injury to wrapperfrom contact with the corkscrew.

The invention is specially applicable to medicine-bottles, where a spoonis usually in dispensable. The bowl ofthe spoon may have graduated linesor other inelt'cz'a marked on it, whereby the quantity of medicinepoured into it may be readily measured.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a plan view of one embodimentof the invention, and Fig. 2 is a View of a combined folding spoon andcorkscrew, the spoon havinga protecting-lip, Fig. 3 being a View of aspoon and screw made from a single piece of metal.

(No model.)

A indicates the spoon, and 'B the corkscrew, the parts being securedtogether in any convenient manner. In Fig. 2 the shank of the spoon isrecessed to receive the like part of the screw, Where it is secured by-apivot, substantially in the manner indicated.

I do not limit myself to any special means for connecting the spoon andscrew, since that is a matter ofjudgment, which will be readilyunderstood.

I prefer to cover a part of the spoon with a protecting-lip, 0, thoughthis in some cases will be unnecessary, and may be omitted.

The article may be made of any suitable material, and it may be founddesirable to form the spoon and screw of one piece of metal, in whichcase any convenient method of manufacture may be followed; but I wouldsuggest the use ofa blank and dies as an effective mode of making them.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A new article of manufacture consisting of a, spoon the handle ofwhich is in theform of a corkscrew, substantially as set forth.

2. A new article of manufacture consisting of a spoon the handle ofwhich is in the form of a corkscrew, and is adapted to be folded intothe bowl of the spoon, substantially as set forth.

3. A new article of manufacture consisting of a spoon provided with aprotecting-lip, the handle of the spoon being in the form of acorkscrew, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing improvement in combinedcorkscrew and spoon, as above described, I have hereunto set my handthis 3d day of June, 1882.

CORNELIUS T. WILLIAMSON.

Witnesses:

W. B. WooDMAN, WM. HY. DURST.

